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Tonight was meant to be the night for Inkle’s around-the-world interactive fiction opus 80 Days to drop — but alas, it is not to be. Inkle’s Jon Ingold emailed me a couple of days back. “We’ve been asked by Apple to move the release day back to next Thursday, the 31st,” he said. “So we are of course doing it.”
This could only mean one of two things. The first possibility: In reviewing the app for release, Apple has exposed Inkle’s dastardly plot to use the game to Manchurian Candidate the world’s population, preparing the ground for a reptilian takeover of Earth. Or second, Apple want to feature the game next week in a prominent slot on the App Store’s front page.
It’s almost certainly the former (alert David Icke, please) but either way the result is the same: 80 Days will be here next Wednesday night. You can read my hands-on 80 Days preview if you want to see what we’re in for next week.
There are other releases tonight, of course. Let’s have a look after the jump.
Dream Revenant is a surreal adventure game that promises 4 acres of space to explore as you delve into the mind of a man on his deathbed trying to “unravel the dark secrets of his past”. I think when I’m on my deathbed I’ll probably just be worrying about not cancelling my Netflix subscription before I croak. Wouldn’t make a very good game, I suppose.
Dream Revenant is out at midnight wherever you are (or 11pm Eastern in the US) for two dollars.
Poptile is a game so simple that you’re going to get it within moments of launching the trailer below. Looks like a fine stress reliever.
Poptile’s free to download later tonight with a $0.99 IAP to unlock addition color themes. The devs tell me that there’s a colour-blind mode.
Do we need any more iOS shooters in the wake of the near-apotheosis of the form represented by World of Tanks Blitz? If your answer to that rhetorical question would have been “yes”, then you might want to check out Gameloft’s Modern Combat 5: Blackout. Gameloft are the basically The Asylum of gaming, pumping out familiar homages to successful titles, so don’t expect innovation here. The game looks awfully pretty, though.
Modern Combat 5 will be five bucks when it drops in your time zone tonight. Gameloft warn that you’ll need an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S to handle this man-shooting monstrosity.
The iPad-only adventure game Revolution 60 is a “hugely cinematic experience” with a big branching sci-fi plot and professional voice acting. It’s also got what will certainly be a hugely divisive art style — Revolution 60 appears to take place in a universe where Ken and Barbie are accurate anatomical specimens and vinyl is a practical material for clothing.
Revolution 60 is free to download later tonight with a $5.99 IAP to unlock the whole shebang.
MESA is a multiplayer-only abstract board-control game with a neat aesthetic. Developers Forest Giant describe it as “a completely original game of strategy and friendly domination”. It looks like Mahjong with lasers, which is as good a log line as I’ve heard all year.
No need to wait until midnight for this one — MESA is out right now for free. There’s a $1.99 IAP to unlock unlimited play and different boards.
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